Changes

Everyone says, “It’ll change when the baby comes. You’ll see.” I get a lot of “You’ll see”. I don’t like it. I’ll see what? Why won’t people let me figure it out for myself. I’m sure they are right, and I’ll see whatever it is they are talking about. But maybe I’ll have a different view. Plus since I bounce to the the beat of a different drum most times and places, I’m guessing that what you see and what I see are very different.

Of course things have changed since the baby came. For instance, do you babies go to bed really early? Visions of walks after dinner for ice cream cones have quickly gone out the window as we can’t even seem to figure out how to eat dinner together, let alone go for a walk afterwards.

I was talking to my Dad the other day and I was saying, it’s a lot harder to do things now with the baby. Getting in runs and especially if we take her becomes a race to get home in time to go before she gets too tired. On the other hand, I was also telling him that she makes everything way more fun.

Yesterday I literally didn’t stop moving from the moment I woke up at 6:30 to when I went to bed at 10:00. In the morning I finished up a big big knitting project (Seriously. I want to give myself a high five for this one) and went to get my bike post (stem?) changed out for a shorter one to make my ride a little more comfy. After I got home, I took a quick shower, woke Lu up from her nap. Then it was on the train to wiggleworms. We then went to lunch with our wiggleworms companions and Lucy’s best friend Ethan. Then we walked all the way home from there which was about 2 miles. Oh yeah. And it’s like a 100 degrees here. Lucy got cranked at the end of that walk because she was so hot. So we decided not to make her go for a run with us because it was so hot. We played with her, she went to bed at like 6:15 (I told you! Early!). Then after she went down I went out for a 6.5 mile run (Oh I’ve been playing with DailyMile for my running log…a little rough in places but getting there). My day went from 6:30-8:00. Then I did some more knitting things before I went to bed (after the crazy project I’m going to knit some dishcloths).

I mean from 6:30am – 10:00pm. I didn’t stop moving. So that part of me hasn’t changed…it’s just become more so. More Leah! If there was a TV realty show about me, I’d want the name of it to be The Leah Experience.

With my new job there is going to be a lot less down time because I’m going to be super super busy. People at Fermilab asked me how I could have possibly wanted to come back given that I had a 40 hour work week and I made a ton money. For the second point I actually didn’t make a ton of money, I got a 10% raise going back to academia. For the first point. Sure 40 hour work weeks are nice. But not when you aren’t passionate about it. Plus I love the physics nerds so much. I mean please, if you could work with Leonard and Sheldon wouldn’t you?

Today looks to be another long day. I’m up early although the other two are still snoozing. We have to clean this place up a bit, and then Lucy has her first swim lesson at the YMCA in the late morning. Don’t know why I signed up for a summer swimming class that’s indoors when we are already doing a music class on Saturdays. But whatever. It’s going to be fun. Or I’m going to call and see if I can get a refund and I’ll just take the next class. Also we are looking forward to Jason’s parents coming in this afternoon.

So yes. Changes. It’s inevitable that it’s going to happen. You’ll see. But I won’t tell you what you’ll see. Just enjoy them as they come.